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    • By: The Great Courses, Khristin Montes
    • Narrated by: Khristin Montes
    • Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In the six lectures of Great Figures of Latino History, art historian and anthropologist Dr. Khristin Montes will introduce you to many of the people that have shaped Latino culture and identity on scales both global and local.

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    • The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
    • By: Julissa Arce
    • Narrated by: Julissa Arce
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 393 ratings
    • Bestselling author Julissa Arce brings listeners a powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants in America....

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    • A History of Latinos in America
    • By: Juan Gonzalez
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture - from food to entertainment to literature - is greater than ever....

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    • A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
    • By: Héctor Tobar
    • Narrated by: André Santana
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Our Migrant Souls assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students to offer a spirited rebuke to racist ideas about Latino people....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Luis Alberto Urrea
    • Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-11
    • Language: English
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    • This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic)....

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    • An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
    • By: T. J. English
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob....

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    • By: Esmerelda Santiago
    • Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
    • Series: Esmeralda Santiago's Memoirs, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • Esmeralda Santiago reminisces about her childhood in Puerto Rico and her early years in Brooklyn as the oldest of seven (soon to be 11) children. Her upbringing is turbulent on account of her parents’ relentless fighting, which only ever seems to stop when they have another baby....

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    • The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
    • By: Robert Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Thom Rivera
    • Length: 20 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus' great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain....

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    • The Education of Richard Rodriguez
    • By: Richard Rodriguez
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum....

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    • Modern Mexican-American Folk Magic
    • By: J. Allen Cross
    • Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • American Brujeria is about the fascinating blend of American and Mexican folk magic currently used by those living in the US but whose roots are steeped in Mexican culture....

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    • Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
    • By: Julia Reynolds
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 600 ratings
    • The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia....

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    • A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
    • By: Marie Arana
    • Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana’s life experience as a Latina. At present, Latinos comprise twenty percent of the US population, a number that is growing....

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    • A Practical Guide to Brujeria de Rancho
    • By: Laura Davila
    • Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Spell work, spiritual cleansing, herbal magic, how to protect against the Evil Eye, and cast, break, and avert hexes and curses....

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    • A New Story of American Racism
    • By: Laura E. Gómez
    • Narrated by: Joana Garcia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In Inventing Latinos‚ Laura Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making‚ unmaking‚ and remaking of Latino identity that has spanned centuries‚ leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today....

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    • By: Maceo Montoya, Ilan Stavans - foreword
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Chicano Movement for Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia....

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    • Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
    • By: Joshua Davis
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • Joshua Davis's Spare Parts--now a major motion picture--is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and the young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country—even as the country tried to kick them out....

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    • A Border Story
    • By: Aaron Bobrow-Strain
    • Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Aaron Bobrow-Strain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Mexico, the nearby US border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida’s mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona. By then, the border had become one of the most heavily policed sites in America....

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